Does Git flow deletes branch on remote server?

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Paritosh Singh picture Paritosh Singh · Jun 22, 2012 · Viewed 22k times · Source

I am using git along with git flow. Here git flow has a develop branch. Whenever i need to start feature i type

git flow feature start new

a new branch feature/new is created. Then i do the changes and commit them using

git push origin feature/new

After comitting the changes I finish feature using 

git flow feature finish new

it deletes feature/new branch locally. Now I am switched to develop branch by git flow and I again type

git push origin develop

which make changes to remote server develop branch

If I type git branch -a, the new branch got deleted from the local but it is there on the server with name remotes/origin/feature/new

Does git flow delete branches on remote server which are deleted at my local machine?

Please tell me if I am making some mistake.

Answer

Stefan picture Stefan · Jun 22, 2012

Looking at the source it seems that the remote feature branch is deleted only if you call git flow feature finish with -F.

However, this fetches the remote before finishing the feature. From the docs:

-F fetch from $ORIGIN before performing finish

Otherwise you can delete the remote branch manually with:

git push origin :feature/new

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